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In Thunderbird, I have my messages sorted by date, in descending order. The newest message is on top. That is probably the most common setup.

Now my problem: Very often, when I want to click on the newest email (first from top), it happens I click on the "From" header above, which causes the messages to be re-arranged and sorted according to "From" field. This drives me crazy.

Is it possible to "freeze" the headers (i.e. "From", "Subject", "Date", ..) and the sorting order ?

I only ever want to sort by date. If I click on "From" by mistake, I would like nothing to happen.

Is this possible ?

I am using Icedove (Thunderbird) 24.8.1 on Debian Wheezy

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Try:

No Message Pane Sort

I haven't tried it and it says 2011 in the documentation so YMMV.

I have been frustrated by this many times, but I don't actually want to turn it off because once in awhile changing the sort order helps me find things.

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  • This works great. Thanks so much. Exactly what I was looking for.
    – Martin Vegter
    Nov 19, 2014 at 12:09
  • BTW, I suggest you try it. You can still sort by using CTRL+click
    – Martin Vegter
    Nov 19, 2014 at 12:12
  • I just installed it to give it a try. It works on Thunderbird 31.2.0 as well. I had to use View->Sort By to change the sorting - to make sure it worked. You can also upvote my answer (in addition to accepting it) if you want to.
    – Joe
    Nov 19, 2014 at 22:50
  • I tried, but I need 2 more points to be able to upvote.
    – Martin Vegter
    Nov 20, 2014 at 0:40

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